In this week’s free Deke’s Techniques movie, Deke examines the new Live Rectangle feature in Adobe Illustrator CC 2015. And after doing so, he sets about figuring out how to turn most of it off.

Thing is, while many “live” dynamic features in Illustrator are quite useful, this one can easily lure you into altering your current rectangle when you’re really just trying to draw a new one.

Hiding the bounding box doesn’t help. Above, you see my artist’s rendering of all the widgetry that’s involved in a “live” rectangle.

So, check out the movie to see a) how it works, and b) how to make it stop.

For those of you who are too frustrated to wait, here’s the icon you want to search for in the Control Panel. (You’ll find it somewhere near the word Shape.)

If you’re a member of Lynda.com, Deke’s got an exclusive movie this week in which he (more favorably) reviews some other Live Shapes, namely ellipses and polygons. Not a member? You can get 10 free days to check it out by signing up at lynda.com/deke. During that time you can watch anything in the entire library, including the entire oeuvre of Monsieur Deke lui-même (as well as all the oeuvres of les autres industry experts).

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